How to Understand Business Finance: Understand the Business Cycle; Manage Your Assets; Measure Business Performance (Sunday Times Creating Success) - Softcover

Cinnamon, Robert; Helweg-Larsen, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749460415 ISBN 13: 9780749460419

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2010

Synopsis

The modern marketplace is increasingly unpredictable and there is an ever-greater need for non-financial managers to understand the financial and management accounting process.

How to Understand Business Finance is not written by an accountant and actually relates to running a business in a real market.  It describes a business as it proceeds from initial set-up through its first year of trading, providing a quick course on business finance as it relates to business growth.  As well as learning how to understand the balance sheet and profit and loss account, readers will also grasp the principles of: market dynamics; budgeting and forecasting; fixed and variable costs; break-even analysis; the difference between profit and cash; financial ratios for measuring business performance; investment appraisal; stock market ratios; shareholder value; financial measures for improving business performance, and much more.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Cinnamon is a director of the international training and consultancy firm, INSIGHT Marketing and People.  He runs a popular master class and in-company training program Demystifying Financial Management.

Brian Helweg-Larsen is a global educator and director of Profitability Business Solutions.

Review:

"Explains accounting to the self-employed and small firms." - Observer "The book is based on a highly visual and participative training event that brings the subject to life." - Accountancy Age"

About this edition

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0749460415
• ISBN 13: 9780749460419
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176